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In this video, we're going to talk about one of the most famous and controversial nuclear tests in history: the Dog Shot test of Buster Jangle in 1951.
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Buster-Jangle Dog - Nuclear test. The third successful test conducted for operation Buster-Jangle, codenamed Dog, was detonated at 430 meters off the ground in order to prevent nuclear...
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Operation Buster–Jangle was a series of seven (six atmospheric, one cratering) nuclear weapons tests conducted by the United States in late 1951 at the Nevada Test Site. Buster–Jangle was the first joint test program between the DOD (Operation Buster) and Los Alamos National Laboratories (Operation Jangle ). As part of Operation Buster ...
Aug 2, 2003 · Dog and Easy were proof tests of two new strategic bombs the Mk 6 and Mk 5 respectively. George and Item were the first true tests of thermonuclear fusion - the release of fusion energy from thermally excited nuclei.
Aug 11, 2017 · Rare Nuclear Bomb Footage Reveals Their True Power | WIRED. Nuclear physicists are using film scanners and computer analysis on old bomb test footage to uncover the weapons' secrets.
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In this test, deuterium-tritium (D-T) gas was injected into the enriched uranium core of a nuclear fission bomb. The extreme heat of the fissioning bomb produced thermonuclear fusion reactions within the D-T gas.
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This atomic explosion, code-named Dog, was part of the Buster-Jangle series of tests. This explosion had a yield of 20 kilotons. Soldiers, part of Operation Desert Rock I, are watching from a distance of 11 kilometres.
